Yesterday, I was walking through the community and just kept noticing how different everything felt. Normally, the edges of the paths are thick with grass and weeds (usually scraping our legs with little pokey thorns). This time, those paths were dusty and charred on each side from constant bush fires. The last few months, our … More Chances in Dry Times
It’s amazing how routines, rhythms, and seasons affect our perception of time and movement in life. We know it’s the end of summer back home which typically signals a variety of adjustments to life. Yet here, there are no seasons, and individual months have essentially no difference at all. The days can go by so … More Plans + Reality = Dependence
Thank you all for your prayers and support for our family and the church here in Konomala. If you’re seeing this for the first time, my apologies! It came to our attention that a few of you haven’t been recieving the email notifications of new posts to our website. It seems like it’s been a … More Scattered Busyness
Hey all, thank you for your prayers and support for our family and the church here in Konomala. As we’ve said lots of times before, the day to day reality of life here can often feel profoundly repetitive and hard to measure in regards to the typical “meaningful” stuff that we so often hope to … More Funerals & Phones
As we help people learn to live life with Jesus, there are little moments along the way that become keystone memories in it all. Sometimes those moments are big and obvious to recognize…other times, not as much. One of the small kind of moments happened a few days ago. Us guys were in the middle … More It Could Be More Helpful
We’ve always recognized that we’re not the forever-answer for the church in Konomala. We have a truly unique opportunity to establish something new in this community, but it’s more clear all the time that there is no generational “guarantee” in all of this. It’s easy to operate with some hidden expectation that the church will … More Real & Ideal
Jesus was full of grace and truth Take a few minutes to think about the depth of that simple description. In revealing God Himself, Jesus perfectly embodied the fullness of God in how He lived a human life on this earth. Grace … always there and loving, always giving and kind, always patient and never … More Loving in the Mess
Hey friends! Hope you’re all having a meaningful start to the new year. Over the past month, as a church, we’ve been spending some intentional time talking about how we can be living our lives together in God’s mission for us as His family. One recent conversation in particular was really encouraging to us. It … More We Need Each Other
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope that you all are have had a good time with family and friends. Every year out here the ladies seem to out-do themselves and our thanksgiving meal gets better and better. It’s either that or living in Konomala has made our taste buds forget some things. It’s definitely the ladies though … … More “This is normal”
Hey friends! Thank you for praying for us here in Konomala. We are so needy for God’s loving grace, guidance, and power as we fight the spiritual battles happening in and around us. It’s often a bit of a staring contest with the computer screen when it comes time to update you all about what’s happening … More Perspective Pauses
